Why is it that people who don't believe in evolution don't have the slightest idea how it works?

Question

Is it the case not that they don't believe it, but they just don't understand how it works? So they say they don't believe it.

Answer 1

The same reason people who disbelieve in any belief system and reject another don't normally understand how the other belief works: they believe something contradictory and don't want to spend all their time learning about opposing belief systems. It's a natural, and inevitable, part of human life (and sad in a great many cases). I don't have time to learn about all belief systems, so there's a good number that I just say "That's wrong" but don't understand (Evolution isn't one of those). Everyone does it. There's just too much to know and examine.

Answer 2

I'm not sure Darwin would endorse the theory today. He believed that yet to be discovered fossils would fill in the gaps that he was well aware of. It didn't happen. We face the problem that evidence for hundreds of thousands of transitions is lacking. Do not confuse micro and macro-evolution. Micro is what he observed in the Galapagos finches. Macro purports that elephants and oak trees have a common ancestor. The very fact that there can be a taxonomy seems counter intuitive to me. Instead of a tree, wouldn't it be shaped more like a porcupine's quills? The walls between species would need to be very fluid, but in fact most hybrids of higher animals are sterile. I think the reason people like you presume the theory to be true is that it absolves them from responsibility to be something other than just another animal

Answer 3

And some people who DO believe/trust in evolution don't have the slightest idea how it works. They just do because scientists "tell" them to.

Answer 4

Just because many atheists have read the bible is no reason to expect that theists have the ability to comprehend science or to show any interest in understanding it. The representations of science by the theists here have been for the most part absolutely infantile.

Answer 5

Some who don't believe in evolution do so because the Bible says nothing about it. The Bible is THE book to some Christians and to question what it says means a one way ticket to hell.

Answer 6

Many of them seem to believe that evolution states that we evolved from apes. Unfortunately, that's a falsehood which is often touted as fact.

Answer 7

Well there your generalizing.... but i dont belive in creationalism. It just makes so much more since that we evolved. That dosent meen that there wasnt a divine being helping us along every step of the way and that at one point our earily ancestors defied god (original sin). I belive what the Catholic church belives.... (as stated above)

Answer 8

I fully understand it, don't insult the intelligence of a lot of people here.
Just because I don't agree with it doesn't make me illogical or unintelligent. I am aware of how it looks to those who don't understand where WE are coming from.

Answer 9

I don't believe it because I can catch bull from a mile away.


Oh yeah, and I dont believe it because 1) Alot of scientist do not back it up and claim it's false, and that their collegues wont give it up, for the sake of money

2) History itself, Fossil's, animals that have been found (bones that is)

3) Many archeologists do not agree, and they are the ones who find a study all these fossils and such....

Its a bunch of Hype from people who number one cant prove it withouta doubt and number 2 just want to be reconginized...

Answer 10

I doubt you understand it. Can males cause evolution? Is it strictly a female phenomenon?